Stop Having Babies You Can't Afford Reddit

Im sick of seeing people online who keep having kids but cant afford them. I see so many parents who sit on lives asking for money or gifts to feed their kids. I've looked into fostering or adopting children with a friend (who is my age and also wants kids), but we can't afford that option, either.

Housing costs are too high, even with our salaries... I'm 33 weeks pregnant. When I fell pregnant I could afford my baby, we were pretty comfortable.

Now it feels like the world is going to shit and I'm starting to wonder when it'll all go back to normal! So one day, when Im in a good spot financially, I plan to have kids. I understand why millennials and Generation Z are having fewer kids if any and waiting longer to have them.

It is amazing how frequently I still see someone say that if people cant afford children, they simply shouldnt have them. This comment usually emerges from discussions about universal childcare, extended maternity leave, or how expensive it is these days to give birth. People scoff at single mothers, telling them to make better choices and blame low-income families for having far too many children than they can afford while missing a lot of crucial information.

Let the stories play in order. Whether youre working, relaxing, or just need something to binge in the background, this episode was made for you. Fertility rates are falling.

One reason for this is the unaffordability of modern parenthood. Conversations around falling fertility both here in the UK and globally continue to drive... It is unspeakably cruel to have a child you can't provide for.

Anyone who has seen a child starve to death in their mother's arms will tell you that no amount of love can make up for a lack of food. They couldn't handle not having a kid together, so after a few years together they decided they needed a kid together as well despite not being able to handle a single one of their kids, financially, on their own.